Hose-supporter.



PATENTED DEC. 8, 1903,

A. H. GOHN.

HOSE SUPPORTER.

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ADOLPH H. COHN, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

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SPSICIFIGATEDTI forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,030, dated December 8, 1903.-

Application filed March 2'7, 1903. Serial No. 149,780. (No model.) i

To (tZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LADOLPH H. Cons, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, borough ot'Manhattan, in the county and State of NewYork, have invented a new and improved Hose-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hose-supporters; and it consists of certain novel parts and combinations of parts particularly pointed outin the claims concluding this specification.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a supporter involving my present invention, and Figs. 2 and3 show a modified form of the same adjusted in two different wearing posit-ions. Fig. a is another n1odi fied form of my invention. Fig. showsstill another modification.

The following is a description of the hose-.

supporters shown in the d rawin'gs,which illustrate forms in which I at present prefer to embody my invention; but it may be understood that Various modifications and changes may be made in the details of the same without departing from my invention and without exceeding the scope of the concluding claims.

Referring to Fig. 1, 2 is a beltor band pass ing around the waist of the wearer and provided with a buckle 3. 4C is a pad of a form well known in the art, provided at its upper end with aloop 5, which engages with a stud 6, attached to a slide 7, through which the belt is threaded. The loop 5 has a keyholeslot, permitting the stud 6 to pass freely through the larger portion ot the slot, which is below, and being prevented. from disengagement by its location in the smaller portion of the slot in operative position, as shown in the drawings. The slide 7 has a series of converging slits through which the belt is threaded and by which itis adjustable on the belt, being at the same time prevented from accidental (.lisplacement from the position on the belt where it is set. it will be observed that the slits in the slide 7 are not arranged in right angles with respect to the general line of the belt, out that they are set at an angle to the general belt-line and to each other, so that while the slide forms a dip in the belt its function is to grip the band and prevent displacement, not by reason alone of the friction between the belt and metal, as if the slits were arranged at right angles to the belt-line and parallel to each other, but by the grip atforded by the opposite inclination of the said slits. From the lower edge of the pad 4 depend the hose-supporting straps 8 8 8 8, provided at their bottom ends with clasps of well-known construction 9 9 9 9.

10 10 are side pads provided with means of attachment to the belt similar to that already described and also with hose-supporting tapes 8 8 at the lower ends, which tapes terminate in clasps 9 9.

In the drawings I have shown the supporters attached to the slide 7 by the loops 5 and the stud 6. This arrangement makes the hose-supporters readily removable. If preferred, however, this removable form of attachment might be omitted and any other form of permanently attaching the same to the metal parts substituted. If desired, the side pads 10 10 and their means of attachment may be omitted, or the front pad and its means of attachment maybe omitted, so that the supporter maybe worn as a front supporteronly or as side supporters only, or, as in its preferred form,with pads both in front and at the sides. In some aspects (see Fig. 4) of my invention the pads 4, l0 and it) may be in whole or in part omitted and the hosesupporting tapes attached directly to the loops 5 or even to the means of attachment to the belt, as the slide 7, shown in Fig. 5.

A modified ,form of the front pad of my supporter is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In this construction the front pad is formed of two separate and independent parts 4 and 4), both attached to the belt by loops and slides, as hereinbefore described. These may be worn side by side, as shown in Fig. 2, or they may be worn crossed, shown in Fig. 3, by attaching the supporting-tapes of the righthand pad to the left-hand stocking and the supporting-tapes of the left-hand pad to the right-hand stocking, will be readily understood.

Heretofore it has been common to hang a hose-supporting pad from a belt encircling the waist, and it has also been common to support such a pad from the stud or clasp of a corset. By my improved supporter advantages are secured additional to those presone adapted to fit wearers of larger or smaller ent in the supporters above referred to. The slides 7, from Whichthe pads hang, are ad justable on the belt and are securely held in Whatever position to which they are set. The pads are removable Without unbnckling the belt. Furthermore, the presence of the side pads 10 10 assists in preventing the shifting of the belt, and these pads being adjustable enable the wearer to locate them wherever desired. The device is therefore Waist measures and to be Worn higher or lower on the person, as may be desired.

'What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters lPatent, is-

1. In a nose-supporter the combination with a belt and hose-supporting tapes, of a device for attaching said tapes to said belt, which device comprises slide having converging slits through which said belt is threaded and which is adjustable longitudinally on said belt together with means for supporting said 1 tapes located at the base of said converging slits.

2. In ahose-supporter the combination with a belt and hose supporting tapes, of a pad and adevice longitudinally adjustable on said belt by which said pad is attached thereto.

3. In a hose-supporter the combination with a belt and hose-supporting tapes, of a pad removably attached to said belt.

at. In a hose-supporter the combination with a belt and hose-supporting tapes, of a device adjustable longitudinally on said belt, and a pad provided with a device removably attached to the said device attached to the belt.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLPH H. OOHN.

WVit-nesses:

, J. EDGAR BULL,

CHARLES RATHJEN. 

